"Let me be, and I will not trouble you again," cried Luzbel.
"Will you ask for my soul?"
"Neither your soul nor your body, but let me alone now."
Then Don Teobaldo, whose heart had been touched by the glance of the angel and moved to repentance, dismounted from the horse and left it free to disappear.
And so ended those famous jousts, which were never eradicated from the memory of the public.
The princess, the following year, married a prince as virtuous as herself, and Don Teobaldo did penance and became a good Christian who had a just satisfaction in having administered a sound thrashing to the devil.
tailpiece to The Devil's Tournament
THE TREASURE OF THE DRAGON
An old sailor brought to my town the news of having seen, in a very distant island, a terrible dragon which guarded an immense treasure. Half of the body of this guardian was a fish, the other half a lion; it moreover had such powerful wings that it could rise to an extraordinary height. Air, water, or land were his elements, and when any ships came near to the coast they were soon attacked by that ever vigilant monster.